The first moon landing is still considered one of mankind's greatest achievements nearly half a century after Neil Armstrong took his first step off the Apollo 11 spacecraft. But it is perhaps even ...

A former NASA intern uploaded the source code for the computer that guided the Apollo 11 moon landing to Github last week, where coders with a bit of time on their hands combed through it to resurrect ...

The Apollo programme pushed space and computing technology to its limit. Cutting edge at the time, some of the tech used seems alarmingly simple today. 74: Memory (ROM) of Apollo guidance computer, in ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. The Apollo Flight Guidance Computer ...

In the final minutes of Apollo 11’s descent to the lunar surface, five 1201 and 1202 alarms blared in the lunar module. The computer was overloaded with data, and for a brief moment it looked like ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This an unflown but complete "Block I ...

NASA landed the first humans on the Moon during the Apollo 11 mission on July 20, 1969. The historic Moon landing consisted of astronauts Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin.

Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin touched down at Tranquility Base on July 20, 1969, fulfilling President John F Kennedy’s goal of landing man on the Moon by the end of the Sixties. Apollo 11 was ...